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Northwestern University's Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts presents “Everybody,” a modern riff on the 15th-century morality play “Everyman,” for two weekends beginning May 19.

Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music showcases the music of George Frideric Handel with its latest Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival. The centerpiece of the festival is Handel’s opera “Alcina,” complemented by a panel discussion and two pre-performance talks, as well as his cantata “Ode to St. Cecilia.”

Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously.

Northwestern University’s Pritzker Pucker Studio Lab for the Promotion of Mental Health via Cinematic Arts is hosting an inaugural symposium “Media and Mental Health: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Madness, Melancholy, and Trauma in Film and Television” May 25 to May 27 on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses.

In new 3D computer simulations, astrophysicists modeled black holes of varying masses and then hurled stars (about the size of our sun) past them to see what might happen. If they exist, intermediate-mass black holes likely devour wayward stars like a messy toddler — taking a few bites and then flinging the remains across the galaxy.

An iPad app developed at Northwestern Medicine that helps measure specific aspects of cognitive, motor, sensory and emotional function in five minutes or less is now available for doctors to screen people ages 3 to 85+ for a wide range of neurological diseases and syndromes.

To help ensure that U.S. buildings can withstand terrorism, pandemics and tragic accidents, Northwestern University has co-organized a series of summits to assess risks to the built environment.

A new study by Northwestern University found that among youth who had entered juvenile detention, one-quarter of Black and Hispanic males were later injured or killed by firearms within 16 years.

There has been a recent dramatic increase in xylazine-involved deaths in Illinois, reports a newly updated fact sheet on the drug from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Between 13 and 84% of postmenopausal women experience dyspareunia—vaginal pain during sex—but the condition is rarely evaluated or treated despite the availability of safe and effective therapies. A new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine comprehensive review of medical studies involving painful sex in post-menopausal women provides a roadmap for doctors to evaluate and treat the typically overlooked condition.